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PaulG · Post by **PaulG** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:55 pm

What are the good applications of FPC beyond just loading the drum sound into a regular channel? I know that you get velocity splits, but if you are NOT using a MIDI trigger (keyboard, etc) to write your drum parts and really would like to use those little dots with a mouse...

I guess the question is what's the advantage of using this as opposed to just loading your drum into a channel directly?

Thanks, all, the answers here are always worth their weight in gold. (That they actually don't
weigh anything at all on a physical level is another point entirely!)

- P

loomchild · Post by **loomchild** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:00 am

It saves you the hassle of building a layer just to be able to sequence your drums part in a single piano roll channel. It's also pretty flexible which is a real plus too. My only gripe against it is that like all FL plugins you can't select a midi port for it.

justified · Post by **justified** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:09 am

FPC doesn't have filter.

loomchild · Post by **loomchild** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:15 am

you can set each pad to output to any fx channel you wish and insert as many filters as your cpu can handle on the said channels.

matthewjumps · Post by **matthewjumps** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:41 am

but all said - i still use standard sampler channels for my drums when im sequencing - unless i actually want to play a kit with my midi keyboard

justified · Post by **justified** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:49 am

loomchild anyway there's no filter per note.

matthewjumps · Post by **matthewjumps** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:54 am

yea thats tru - no filter envelopes for fpc - yet - i bet there will be tho....

PaulG · Post by **PaulG** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:03 am

Thanks, all.

As always, appreciate the input from different points of view as far as what "works" in different applications, styles, workflow, etc.

stk · Post by **stk** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:09 am

1) velocity splits
2) velocity splits
3) velocity splits
4) umm... oh yeah, velocity splits

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:01 am

PaulG wrote:What are the good applications of FPC beyond just loading the drum sound into a regular channel? I know that you get velocity splits, but if you are NOT using a MIDI trigger (keyboard, etc) to write your drum parts and really would like to use those little dots with a mouse...

I guess the question is what's the advantage of using this as opposed to just loading your drum into a channel directly?

Thanks, all, the answers here are always worth their weight in gold. (That they actually don't
weigh anything at all on a physical level is another point entirely!)

- P

first, I assume the "little white dots" are the step sequencer...which imho is a complete and utter waste of programming....the piano roll is far superior...forget the mouse try fpc with...

btw I actually don't use fpc because there are better solutions if you don't mind spending a few paychecks...but it is useful, and there are some good kits available from what I understand...

stk · Post by **stk** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:20 pm

Hink wrote:there are better solutions if you don't mind spending a few paychecks...but it is useful, and there are some good kits available from what I understand...

Indeed, Kontakt2 is easily the best sampler for drums out there..
I can map out an 8 piece, 16-layered drumkit in a few minutes.
The script engine, with its humanisation possibilities, is awesome for injecting random jitter, swing & variation into programmed drums.

FPC is good for quick'n'dirty velocity layers, as well as sharing drumkits around, or programming from one gen channel without using layer channels.

FL6 - FPC - why use this?